Biographies of Scientists & Inventors
This category highlights brilliant scientists, researchers, and inventors who have shaped the course of human knowledge. From groundbreaking discoveries to life-changing innovations, these individuals have left a lasting mark on science and technology.
- Aage Bohr
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
- Abdus Salam
- Abu Nasr Al-Farabi
- Ada Lovelace
- Adalbert Czerny
- Adolphe Quetelet
- Agnes Arber
- Ahmed Zewail
- Al-Battani
- Alan Turing
- Albert Abraham Michelson
- Albert C. Richardson
- Albert Einstein
- Alberto Santos-Dumont
- Albrecht von Haller
- Aldo Leopold
- Alessandro Volta
- Alexander Bain
- Alexander Brongniart
- Alexander Fleming
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Miles
- Alexander P. Ashbourne
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Alfred Binet
- Alfred Blalock
- Alfred Cralle
- Alfred Kinsey
- Alfred Nobel
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Alfred Wegener
- Alhazen
- Alice Augusta Ball
- Alice H. Parker
- Alister Hardy
- Ambrose Fleming
- Amedeo Avogadro
- Anaximander
- Anders Celsius
- Andre Marie Ampère
- Andreas Vesalius
- Andrew Beard
- Angel Alcala
- Annie Easley
- Annie Malone
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Antonio Meucci
- Antony Hewish
- Aprille Ericsson
- Archimedes
- Aristarchus
- Aristotle
- Arnold Orville Beckman
- Arnold Sommerfeld
- Arthur Compton
- Arthur Eddington
- Artturi Virtanen
- Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu
- Avicenna
- Ayanna Howard
- Barbara McClintock
- Barry Marshall
- Beatrix Potter
- Benjamin Banneker
- Benjamin Bradley
- Benjamin Cabrera
- Benjamin F. Jackson
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin Jackson
- Benjamin Montgomery
- Benjamin Thompson
- Benjamin Thornton
- Bernardo Houssay
- Bernhard Riemann
- Bessie Blount
- Bessie Blount Griffin
- Beth Brown
- Bill Nye
- Blaise Pascal
- Brahmagupta
- Brian Cox
- Burrhus Frederic Skinner
- C. V. Raman
- Carl Anderson
- Carl Bosch
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Woese
- Caroline Herschel
- Carolus Linnaeus
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Charles B. Brooks
- Charles Babbage
- Charles Barkla
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Drew
- Charles Goodyear
- Charles Lyell
- Charles Nicolle
- Charles Richard Drew
- Charles Sherrington
- Charles Townes
- Charles W. Chappelle
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
- Chen-Ning Yang
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Christiaan Huygens
- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
- Clarence Birdseye
- Clarence Ellis
- Clatonia Joaquin Dorticus
- Claude Bernard
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- Claudius Ptolemy
- Clyde Tombaugh
- Craig Venter
- Daniel Bernoulli
- David Bohm
- David Crosthwait
- David Hilbert
- David Nelson Crosthwait Jr.
- Democritus
- Dian Fossey
- Diophantus
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Dorothy Hodgkin
- Dorothy Vaughan
- Dr. Gladys West
- E. O. Wilson
- Edith Clarke
- Edmund Halley
- Eduard Buchner
- Edward Jenner
- Edward Teller
- Edwin Herbert Land
- Edwin Hubble
- Eli Whitney
- Elijah Bond
- Elijah McCoy
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Elizebeth Smith Friedman
- Emil Adolf Behring
- Emil Fischer
- Emil Kraepelin
- Emile Berliner
- Emmett Chappelle
- Emmy Noether
- Empedocles
- Enrico Fermi
- Eratosthenes
- Ernest Just
- Ernest Lawrence
- Ernest Rutherford
- Ernest Walton
- Ernesto Illy
- Ernst Haeckel
- Ernst Ising
- Ernst Mach
- Ernst Mayr
- Ernst Werner von Siemens
- Erwin Chargaff
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Euclid
- Eudoxus of Cnidus
- Eugene Tony Jackson
- Evangelista Torricelli
- Fibonacci – Leonardo of Pisa
- Florence Nightingale
- Frances Kelsey
- Francesco Redi
- Francis Bacon
- Francis Crick
- Francis Galton
- Frank Drake
- Frank Hornby
- Franz Boas
- Franz Mesmer
- Fred Hoyle
- Frederick Gowland Hopkins
- Frederick Jones
- Frederick McKinley Jones
- Frederick Sanger
- Frederick Soddy
- Fredrick Jones
- Friedrich August Kekulé
- Friedrich Wöhler
- Fritz Haber
- Galen
- Galileo Galilei
- Garrett A. Morgan
- Garrett Augustus Morgan
- Garrett Morgan
- Garrett Morgan Sr.
- Gene Shoemaker
- Georg Brandt
- Georg Ohm
- George Beadle
- George Carruthers
- George Crum
- George de Hevesy
- George E. Alcorn
- George Edward Alcorn Jr
- George Gamow
- George Gaylord Simpson
- George Grant
- George T. Sampson
- George Wald
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Murray
- Georges Cuvier
- Georges Lemaître
- Georges-Louis Leclerc
- Gertrude Elion
- Gerty Theresa Cori
- Giulio Natta
- Gladys West
- Glenn Seaborg
- Gottfried Leibniz
- Gottlieb Daimler
- Grace Murray Hopper
- Granville T. Woods
- Granville Woods
- Gregor Mendel
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Gustav Kirchoff
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz
- Hans Bethe
- Hans Christian Oersted
- Hans Selye
- Harold Urey
- Harriet Quimby
- Hedy Lamarr
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
- Heinrich Hertz
- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
- Hennig Brand
- Henri Becquerel
- Henri Poincaré
- Henrietta Leavitt
- Henry Bessemer
- Henry Blair
- Henry Brown
- Henry Cavendish
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry Ford
- Henry Moseley
- Henry Sampson
- Henry Thomas Sampson Jr
- Hermann Rorschach
- Hermann Staudinger
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Hipparchus
- Hippocrates
- Homi Jehangir Bhabha
- Howard Florey
- Humphry Davy
- Hypatia
- Ibn Battuta
- Ibn Rushd
- Inge Lehmann
- Irene Joliot-Curie
- Isaac Newton
- Isaac Singer
- Isaiah Montgomery
- Ivan Pavlov
- J Harlen Bretz
- J. Hans D. Jensen
- J. J. Thomson
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Jack Horner
- Jacob Berzelius
- Jacques Cousteau
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- James Black
- James Chadwick
- James Clerk Maxwell
- James Croll
- James Dwight Dana
- James E. West
- James Edward Maceo West
- James Edward West
- James Forten
- James Hutton
- James Prescott Joule
- James S. Avery
- James Watson
- James Watt
- James West
- Jan Baptist von Helmont
- Jan Ernst Matzeliger
- Jan Matzeliger
- Jane Goodall
- Jane Marcet
- Jean Andre Deluc
- Jean Piaget
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Jerry Lawson
- Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr
- Jesse Eugene Russell
- Jesse Russell
- Jim Al-Khalili
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Johannes Kepler
- John Albert Burr
- John Archibald Wheeler
- John B. Christian
- John Bardeen
- John Cockcroft
- John Dalton
- John Deere
- John Eccles
- John H. Johnson
- John Herschel
- John Jacob Astor IV
- John Lee Love
- John Locke
- John Logie Baird
- John Michell
- John Muir
- John Napier
- John Needham
- John Parker
- John Philoponus
- John Ray
- John Standard
- John von Neumann
- John Wallis
- Jonas Salk
- Joseph Banks
- Joseph Henry
- Joseph Lee
- Joseph Lister
- Joseph Priestley
- Joseph Winters
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Justus von Liebig
- K. Eric Drexler
- Karl Benz
- Karl F. Herzfeld
- Karl Landsteiner
- Karl Popper
- Katharine Burr Blodgett
- Katherine Johnson
- Keisuke Ito
- Kimberly Bryant
- Kip S. Thorne
- Konrad Lorenz
- Kristian Birkeland
- Lawrence Bragg
- Lee De Forest
- Leland Clark
- Leo Szilard
- Leon Foucault
- Leonhard Euler
- Lester R. Brown
- Lewis Howard Latimer
- Lewis Latimer
- Lewis Temple
- Linda Buck
- Linus Pauling
- Lisa Ascolese
- Lisa Gelobter
- Lise Meitner
- Lloyd Hall
- Lonnie G. Johnson
- Lonnie Johnson
- Louis Agassiz
- Louis Braille
- Louis de Broglie
- Louis Pasteur
- Lucretius
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Luigi Galvani
- Luis Alvarez
- Luther Burbank
- Lyda D. Newman
- Lynn Margulis
- Macfarlane Burnet
- Mae Carol Jemison
- Marc Hannah
- Marcello Malpighi
- Marguerite Perey
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer
- Maria Mitchell
- Marian Croak
- Marie Curie
- Marie M. Daly
- Marie Van Brittan Brown
- Mario Molina
- Marion Croak
- Mark Dean
- Mark E. Dean
- Martha Jones
- Martin Gardner
- Martin Klaproth
- Mary Anning
- Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner
- Mary Jackson
- Mary Somerville
- Mary Van Brittan Brown
- Matthew Maury
- Maurice Hilleman
- Maurice Wilkins
- Max Born
- Max Delbruck
- Max Planck
- Max von Laue
- Meredith Gourdine
- Michael E. Brown
- Michael Faraday
- Michio Kaku
- Mihailo Petrovic Alas
- Milutin Milanković
- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Nathaniel Alexander
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Nettie Stevens
- Niccolo Leoniceno
- Niccolo Tartaglia
- Nicholas Culpeper
- Nicolas Steno
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Niels Bohr
- Nikola Tesla
- Noam Chomsky
- Norbert A. Rillieux
- Norbert Rillieux
- Omar Khayyam
- Oswald Avery
- Otis Boykin
- Otis F. Boykin
- Otto Hahn
- Otto Haxel
- Otto von Guericke
- Patricia Bath
- Paul Dirac
- Paul E. Williams
- Paul Ehrlich
- Pearl Kendrick
- Percival Lowell
- Percy Julian
- Percy Lavon Julian
- Peter Debye
- Philip Downing
- Philip Emeagwali
- Philippe Pinel
- Philo T. Farnsworth
- Pierre Curie
- Pierre de Fermat
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Pliny the Elder
- Polly Matzinger
- Prafulla Chandra Ray
- Proclus
- Prokop Divis
- Pyotr Kapitsa
- Pythagoras
- Rachel Carson
- Ramon Barba
- Randy Pausch
- René Descartes
- Richard Allen
- Richard Feynman
- Richard Spikes
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
- Robert Bosch
- Robert Boyle
- Robert Brown
- Robert Bunsen
- Robert Flemming Jr.
- Robert Goddard
- Robert Hooke
- Robert Koch
- Ronald Fisher
- Ronald Ross
- Rosalind Franklin
- Roy L. Clay Sr
- Roy L. Clay Sr.
- Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel
- Rudolf Virchow
- Rufus Stokes
- Salim Ali
- Sally Ride
- Samuel Colt
- Samuel Morse
- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
- Sarah Boone
- Sarah E. Goode
- Sarah Thomas
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Selman Waksman
- Sergei Winogradsky
- Sheldon Lee Glashow
- Shintaro Hirase
- Shirley Ann Jackson
- Shirley Jackson
- Sigmund Freud
- Sophie Germain
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Stephanie Kwolek
- Stephen Hawking
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Steven Chu
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Susumu Tonegawa
- Svante Arrhenius
- Sven Wingqvist
- Thabit ibn Qurra
- Thales of Miletus
- Theodor Schwann
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Theon of Alexandria
- Thomas Burnet
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Elkins
- Thomas Gold
- Thomas Harriot
- Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Thomas Jennings
- Thomas Kuhn
- Thomas L. Jennings
- Thomas Martin
- Thomas Midgeley Jr.
- Thomas Newcomen
- Thomas Stewart
- Thomas Willis
- Tim Noakes
- Timothy John Berners-Lee
- Trofim Lysenko
- Tycho Brahe
- Ukichiro Nakaya
- Valerie L. Thomas
- Valerie Thomas
- Victor Lawrence
- Virginia Apgar
- Vladimir Vernadsky
- Walter Hawkins
- Walter Sammons
- Walter Schottky
- Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe
- Wanda Austin
- Werner Heisenberg
- Wernher Von Braun
- Wilbur and Orville Wright
- Wilder Penfield
- Wilhelm Ostwald
- Wilhelm Röntgen
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Willard Frank Libby
- Willard Gibbs
- William Bayliss
- William Buckland
- William Gilbert
- William Harvey
- William Herschel
- William Hopkins
- William John Swainson
- William Oughtred
- William Perkin
- William Purvis
- William Ramsay
- William Smith
- William Thomson
- Willis Johnson
- Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
- Youyou Tu
- Zora Neale Hurston